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iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

I actually switched from Android to iPhone maybe a year and a half ago, after I got an iPad to take notes on for university and really enjoyed using it.

I hate Google
I mostly like how iOS works
I mostly don’t like how Android works, it has a lot of rough edges and jank (imo, partially resulting from stock apps sucking or just not being there at all but there not being enough low level access for third party apps to provide a well integrated replacement)
Shortcuts/Automation is amazing
Builtin Calendar/Contacts/Reminders apps are amazing and especially lets me connect to my DAV server without any hassle
Nobody has built anything that comes close to Apple’s cross-device interactions (but I guess that’s also Apple’s and Google’s fault for locking the systems down)
A consistent look and feel across the system is very important to me and iOS apps seem to care more about that. Even Google’s own apps used different visual styles sometimes last I used it
The hardware and OS looks nice without being overly flashy, it just hits that sweet spot of “pleasant design”
If I want to develop apps I really don’t want to touch anything related to Java